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<\/a>\nQueen Victoria with her grandaughter Alix<\/em><\/p>\n
Victoria’s youngest daughter, Beatrice, had two hemophilic sons, and a daughter, Ena, who was a carrier. When Ena married King Alphonso XIII of Spain, the disease spread to the Spanish royal family. They stumbled upon the fact that their firstborn and heir to the Spanish throne was a hemophiliac when the old Spanish court custom of circumcising the royal children almost caused him to bleed to death. From then on the Spanish royal family padded the tree trunks in the royal gardens to stop the heir from bruising himself. He survived childhood, but years later was involved in a car crash and bled to death.<\/p>\n
Of Queen Victoria’s children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, thirty-six were either sufferers, carriers or suspected carriers of the disease. The disease was never mentioned because official royal policy was to hush it up. Nor was Victoria ever aware that she was the source of the disease, and she went to her grave blaming her husband’s Coburg side of the family. There are still hemophiliacs among Queen Victoria’s 300 living descendants today.<\/p>\n Culled from:\u00a0Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In May 1956, two-year-old Raymond Gorz wandered away from his home on St. Paul’s West Side Flats. Riding a tricycle, he went to the steep banks of the Mississippi River just two blocks away. As he played along the banks, he lost his footing and tumbled down into the treacherous current. When the boy couldn’t be found, his father, Robert Gorz, went searching for him and came across the abandoned tricycle. He also saw a tiny body floating downstream. Gorz jumped in, fully clothed, to rescue his son, but efforts to revive the boy, first by an uncle and then by firemen, proved futile.<\/p>\n Here the boy’s mother, whose first name isn’t given in the newspaper story, holds him in her arms. To her left the boy’s sobbing father, his clothes still drenched from his plunge into the river, looks on. The uncle, Walter Gorz, holds one of the dead boy’s hands. By this time it appears firemen have given up their resuscitation efforts. The Pioneer Press reported that the mother “picked up the body, unbelieving, refusing to let police cover the boy with a sheet… [The father] held onto a small, limp hand, kissing it and weeping uncontrollably and beating upon the earth with his fist. An officer took the body from the mother’s arm.s The parents walked away toward their home… They walked arm in arm, sobbing.”<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nQueen Victoria with her Children and Grandchildren<\/em><\/p>\nTragedy Du Jour!<\/span><\/h3>\n